We should not make people hold on to Traditions of elders, which would not glorify God
Mark 7:2(Pharisees saw the disciples eat food with unwashed hands and complained about it)
2 and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. Acts 10:14, 28(Peter’s vision that makes him not to call anybody unclean)
14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
28 He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean. Rom 14:14(For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit)
14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,
We learn the following from the above verses
1) We should not make people hold on to Traditions of elders, which would not glorify God
2) Pharisees saw the disciples eat food with unwashed hands and complained about it
3) God does not like the traditions that make people adhere to petty rules and not of their free will.
4) God gave peter the vision so that he can go to gentiles and proclaim the gospel
5) For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit
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